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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"good death"”.
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A Good Death
While death is surely inevitable, the timing and circumstances of our deaths may vary widely and are likely to be negotiable in response to the changing needs of patients and families for physical, emotional and spiritual support as their diseases and illnesses evolve. Patients and families need to …
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The Culture of the Good Death in Seventeenth-Century Mexico City
… subjects believed in and practiced the Good Death. The culture of the Good Death in seventeenth-century Mexico City shows that their Mexican Catholicism represented a localized religious practice that was completely hispanicized. Death permeated Mexico City's population base due to …
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Dying of cancer : is it the process or the place that contributes to a good death?
… expectation or conventionally held belief that Good Death is only attainable at home was challenged, with findings indicating that it is possible to achieve a Good Death in a hospital setting.
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What Makes a Death Good? Examining Key Conditions to Guide Healthcare Decisions
… and improving how humans die, the concept of a “good death" remains poorly understood. This creates barriers to crafting specific policies and care provision strategies that cater to dying individuals and their caregivers. This thesis aims to synthesize knowledge generated by scholars and …
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A Phenomenological Study of Health Professionals’ Perceptions of Good and Bad Pediatric Hospital Deaths, Self-Care Needs and Lingering Distress
<p>The death of a child is devastating. Although death is a part of every life, a child dying seems out of order in current times and in the context of Western Healthcare. Health professionals (HP) caring for dying children frequently report suffering. In the past four decades, HP have been …
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Got Plans? A Regional Partnership for Advance Care Planning in North Carolina
… The loss of my loved ones made me reflect about death and dying multiple times. More specifically, I reflected on how our society and local communities approach conversations about the end of life. I became increasingly concerned about the discomfort associated with death. Due to this, I became …
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Bereaved individual's embodied experiences at the moment of death within the context of them being physically present or absent
… within the field of bereavement, as well as death and dying, there are still some experiences which are yet to be explored within the literature. One of the aspects seen within the bereaved and medical communities is that of patients and relatives achieving a ‘good death’. The ‘good death’ …
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'Morbid Exhilarations': Dying Words in Early Modern English Drama
In Renaissance England, dying a good death helped to ensure that the soul was prepared for the afterlife. In the theatre, however, playwrights disrupt and challenge the conventional formulas for last words, creating death scenes that range from the philosophical to the blackly comic. In expanding …
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Death and dying in the emergency department: a phenomenological study of the experiences of family members and nursing staff
… study has been to understand the experience of death and dying in the emergency department of a hospital, through listening to the experiences of bereaved family members and nursing staff. Death and dying remain taboo subjects in society today and therefore people may come to the end of their …
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The Impact of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 On the Evidence Based Practice of Distributive Justice Via Comfort Care In Elderly Burn Trauma Victims
… successful care to include the provision of a good death.</p>
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Stress and death attitudes in nurses
… methods are used to investigate stress and death attitudes in nurses from three clinical areas (palliative, psychiatric and general nursing). The work investigates: the experience of stress (reported sources and levels, coping strategies); fear of death (based on Howells et al,, 1986, with …
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The experiences of staff supporting people with intellectual disabilities with dementia, death, and bereavement
… with intellectual disabilities with issues of death, dying, and bereavement. A metasynthesis was conducted to review 13 papers meeting the inclusion criteria. Three themes were developed: (1) Talking about death is hard: Negotiating the uncertainty in death, dying, and bereavement; (2) The …
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The Geriatric Cancer Experience in End of Life: Model Adaptation and Testing
… from Emanuel and Emanuel's framework for a good death using SEM. It was hypothesized that the model was a five-factor structure composed of clinical status, physical, psychological, spiritual and quality of life domains and that quality of life is dependent on the other factors. The sample …
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Intensive care nurses’ perceptions of ‘good’ end-of-life care for the adult patient who has had treatment withdrawn or withheld: A North Island non-metropolitan ICU nursing study.
… for the patient and their family. Providing a ‘good’ death for the adult patient who has had treatment withdrawn or withheld is a challenge in an environment where the emphasis is on cure. I designed a questionnaire to investigate nurse’s perceptions of ‘good’ end-of-life care. Nurses in eight …
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Death and Dying in the Modern Irish Novel: Studies in Form and Meaning from James Joyce to Anne Enright
… negotiates shifting cultural conceptions of death and dying across the twentieth century. Analyzing a cross-section of important novels — James Joyce’s Ulysses, Kate O’Brien’s The Ante-Room, Samuel Beckett’s Malone Dies, John McGahern’s The Barracks and Anne Enright’s The Gathering — my study …
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A Sociological Critique of 'Grand Narratives' in the History of Hospice and Palliative Care
… care to the dying patient and for achieving a 'good death'. For many years hospice philosophy was practiced in volimtary hospices that were charitable organisations deliberately located outside the National Health Service. An exponential growth in the number of such organisations during the …
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Planning for death? An ethnographic study of choice and English end-of-life care
… advance care planning as a way to facilitate a ‘good death’, these polices have reshaped how persons, as dying patients, could be known and how they are positioned within the healthcare system as autonomous, reflective individuals. Documents like the Preferred Priorities for Care are used to …
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HOSPICE PATIENT'S PERCEPTION OF FAMILY SUPPORT
<p>This qualitative and quantitative study focused on exploring hospice patient’s perceptions of family support. Family support was conceptualized as which family member they expect to receive support from, types of support provided, frequency of support, family communication about medical illness, …
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Uncovering the Lived Experience of Hospital Nurses Providing End-of-Life Care
… will be calm, informed by the nurses’ ideas of a good death, transitioning from the storm of treatment to the calm of dying, human contact and practical care. This may differ to the palliative principles that inform current practice, indicating an emergent field of knowledge. Protection is needed …
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Understanding end-of-life admissions: an interview study of patients admitted to a large English hospital shortly before death
… Hospitals are supposedly unable to offer a ‘good’ death for patients, and dying there is thought to contradict patient choice, since patients are assumed to want to die at home. However, almost half of all deaths in England in 2015 occurred in hospital, and of these, nearly a third died …
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